Investment Capabilities

Listening, understanding and finding investment answers

Understanding your needs and using our extensive global investment capabilities to help you to find the best solution, that's what our team of experts are focused on.

The secret of our success is our focus on listening to our clients and understanding their needs. Our team of experts can then use our extensive global investment capabilities to find the best solution to meet individual needs.

With experienced investment professionals located in all of our key offices around the world, we are positioned to work hand in hand with you to find the right answer to your investment needs.

Our range of pooled funds covers the spectrum from cash management through index management and active management to manager of managers. If a pooled fund solution does not meet your objectives, we are able to tailor a portfolio to your exact requirements.

Bo Kratz

Bo Kratz

Managing Director, Asset Management, Asia Pacific

Based in the Hong Kong office, Bo Kratz is responsible for Northern Trust Asset Management activities across Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan. The Northern Trust Asset Management team in the region includes global equity index portfolio management and global equity dealing from Hong Kong, as well as investment strategy, relationship management and sales teams based in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.

Bo has more than 20 years of experience in asset management, the past 11 years in leadership roles based in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Before joining Northern Trust, Bo most recently managed Permal's Asia business, with responsibility for the group's offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. Prior to that, he held a number of senior and regional roles with ABN AMRO Asset Management in Asia, and led the firm's sales, product and marketing efforts. A native of Sweden, Bo has also worked as a financial analyst, head of research, portfolio manager and chief investment officer, at Alfred Berg Asset Management and H. Lunden Fondkommission based in Stockholm, Sweden.

He holds a B.A. from Gothenburg School of Economics in Sweden and a MBA from Warwick Business School in England.

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